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The Witch
You know those failed comedies where half the cast gets killed at one point or another, but everyone turns up alive and well in the final scene and there's an inexplicable all-is-forgiven resolution? Yeah, it's one of those, with a few scenes of authentically-sourced witchcraft that was clearly cribbed from the Encyclopedia Brittannica of the time (specifically, Ovid's Metamorphoses).

The Alamanck : A son, sent to ransom his mother and sister from pirates, spends the money partying abroad. He returns home with a prostitute he claims is his sister, and reports that his mother is dead. The the mother returns, and recognizes the prostitute as her own daughter.
Oh, and there is some subplot about revenge-marrying a widow.
A fun little diversion.

Roaring Girl was pretty decent, though a bit overdone in the omni-competence of its protagonist. Clearly a love letter to the then-living-legend that was its inspiration.

Stopped reading the intro to The Roaring Girl when I encountered the word "binarity". Guess it shouldn't be a surprise that we can pin all this gender-is-a-social-construct-and-gosh-we-should-rethink-our-approach-to-everything nonsense on the liberal arts academics.

Bloody Banquet and The Ladies' Tragedy - pretty good.
A Trick To Catch The Old One, and A Mad World, My Masters - city comedies, portraying city schemes. Rather unremarkable.